How to format your references using the Food Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Savage, N., 2014. Born in the blood. Nature 515, S158-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Custance, O., Morita, S., 2008. Materials science. How to move an atom. Science 319, 1051–1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blumenstock, J., Cadamuro, G., On, R., 2015. Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata. Science 350, 1073–1076.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rothman, J.S., Cathala, L., Steuber, V., Silver, R.A., 2009. Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control. Nature 457, 1015–1018.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Bernström, S., 2014. Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sloane, A., Aßmann, U. (Eds.), 2012. Software Language Engineering: 4th International Conference, SLE 2011, Braga, Portugal, July 3-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bartnik, R., Buryn, Z., 2011. Algorithm for the Calculation of an Optimum Structure of Heat Exchangers for the Modernization of a 370 MW Power Unit to Combined Heat and Power Cycle, in: Buryn, Z. (Ed.), Conversion of Coal-Fired Power Plants to Cogeneration and Combined-Cycle: Thermal and Economic Effectiveness. Springer, London, pp. 61–67.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Food Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2016. Why Do Male Fruit Flies Have Humongous Sperm? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-male-fruit-flies-have-humongous-sperm/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: Managing the Costs of Large-Dollar Highway Projects (No. RCED-97-47). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Khaleghi, F.K., 2017. Evaluating Satisfaction of Participants within the Outreach and Engagement Program of MECCA (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. Actor Set to Have Key Role In Man’s Drug Murder Trial. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Savage, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Custance and Morita, 2008; Savage, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Custance and Morita, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rothman et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Policy
Abbreviation	Food Policy
ISSN (print)	0306-9192
Scope	Food Science Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Sociology and Political Science